Tire-holder.



33 1 3 17353. GGPY P. S. GARRETT.

TIRE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 0, 1910.

1,001,632, Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

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FRANK SELLERS GARRETT. OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF ANDHENRY KEPPELE MILLER, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, TRADING AS GARRETT,

MILLER & C0.

TIRE-HOLDER.

Original application filed April 19, 1910, Serial No. 556,376.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1910. Serial No. 575,913.

'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Sermons GAR- nn'r'r, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Wilmington, county of Newcastle, and State ofDelaware, have invented a new and useful Improvement in lire'I-Ioldcrs,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings which form a part ofthis specification.

This application is a division of an application filed by me April 19th,1910, Serial No. 556,376.

My invention relates to certain improvements in tire holders whereby thedevice is readily adapted for the support of a plurality of tires or asingle tire, and further, the device is so arranged that the securingstraps, together with the support and guide bracket, extend around thetires in a manner to better secure the tires in position.

Specifically speaking, I provide base supports for the tires, hingedtogether so that one may be folded upon the other when a single tirealone is carried. Further, with respect to the top and side guides, theyconsist of brackets which are adjustable with respect to each other sothat they may be brought closer or farther from each other toaccommodate either a single or a plurality of tires. The guiding orsupporting surfaces of these brackets are made curved so as to adaptthemselves to the curvature of the tire, and finally, are made tubularso that a single strap may be supported from the tubular portion andsecured together around the tire.

Particularly my invention resides in the construction for introducingthe straps, and the tubular support for the tire guides, the two sectiontire guides and the relative movement of these two portions or sectionsof the tire guides to adapt themselves to a single or plurality oftires.

I will now describe the embodiment of my invention illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a section through my deviceshowing two tires being carried. Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. l, butonly one tire being carried.

Upon the running board are placed the base tire guides or supports a andb which are curved and secured to the running board through the mediumof the plate 0. The two sections a and l) are hinged together so thatwhen a single tire is in use they may be folded up .in the positionshown in Fig. 2. A strap (Z passes around these base guides aand I)through an orilice in the plate 0 and the free ends of the strap (Z maybe secured together, as shown at 0.

One set of the top guides is secured to the car body by the bracket f,from which extends the rod 9. Upon this rod g is one section /b of thetop guide which is locked or fixedly secured to the shaft by the setscrew .2. Loosely mounted, so as to be movable along said rod g is theother section 2' of the top tire guide. These tire guide sections eachhave the curved portions j to adapt itself to the tire, and have thetube or orifice through which passes the strap 6, and which strapextends around the tire and is secured at its free end m.

The side guides are secured in the follow ing manner: The bracket n ofthe side guides may be secured to the dash board (as shown) from whichbracket projects the rod 0, to which one member 2) of the side guides isfixedly secured by set screw in and the other member Q is looselymounted upon the rod 0 so as to move longitudinally of the rod. 'lhesesections 2,) and g are curved in a manner similar to the top guidesections and have orifices or tubes 9* through them similar to theorilices or tubes in the top guides, and through which orifices pass thestrap a, the free ends of which strap may be secured together around thetire, as shown at t.

In Fig. l the arrangement is shown with two tires carried thereon and inFig. with one lire carried thereon. In the latter case, as may be seen,the movable sections of the top and side guides have been moved closerto the fixed sections than in the other figure, so that the strappassing through may readily be secured around the single tire. The baseguide sections are swung together on the hinge connectioi'i so that theywith the straps are also brought close together to conform to the singletire arrangement.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a tire holder, :1. two-section guide, a rod upon which one sectionis loosely mount ed, and means to fixedly secure the other section tothe rod and a single strap passing through both guide sections andadapted to pass around the tire.

2. In a tire holder, in combination, a guide formed in two sections, arod upon which said sections are mounted so as to have a longitudinalmovement toward and from each other and a single strap passing throughboth guide sections and adapted to pass around the tire.

3. In a tire holder, in combination, two guides, each having a curvedclamping section of the shape of the opposite sides of the tire, therebeing a curved orifice through each clamping section, and a single strappassing through both orifices for surrounding the tire.

4. In a tire holder, in combination, two

guides, each having a curved clamping section, adapted to opposite sldesof the tire,

there being a curved orifice throughfeach,"

FRANK SELLERS GARRETT.

lVitnesses VILLIAM H. GIBBONS, ALFRED B. Moonn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, 1). C.

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